Gps And Gprs Based Telemonitoring System For Emergency Patient Transportation

Gps And Gprs Based Telemonitoring System For Emergency Patient Transportation

Abstract

Telemonitoring during the golden hour of patient transportation helps in bettered Medicare. Presently there are different physiological data accession and transmission systems using cellular network and radio communication links. position monitoring systems and videotape transmission systems are also commercially available. The exigency case transportation systems uniquely bear transmission of data pertaining to the case, vehicle, time of the call, physiological signals like ECG, blood pressure body temperature, blood oxygen achromatism, and position information. These conditions are presently met by using separate communication systems for physiological data and position that affect in lot of vexation to the technicians, conservation affiliated issues, in addition to being precious. This design presents design, development and perpetration of such a telemonitoring system for exigency case transportation using visual introductory6.0. This system is set up to be veritably useful for exigency case transportation being accepted by associations like Mater Misericordae Hospital Afikpo.

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the Study

Telemonitoring is a medical practice that involves ever covering cases who aren’t at the same position as the health care provider. In general, a case will have a number of monitoring bias at home and the result of these bias will be transmitted via a telephone to the health care provider. A Telemonitoring system incorporates invention technology with in- home, tone- monitoring assists to collect real time updates regarding your loved bones vital signs. The tone- monitoring test result are captured and transmitted to a central database that stores the information that can be penetrated ever by the case, family and their healthcare platoon. conduct and variations can be made with the results and can be employed for on- going care recommendations. General Packet Radio Service( GPRS) is a data transfer specification used by the Time Division Multiple Access( TDMA) and Global System for Mobile dispatches( GSM) networks. The GPRS system makes use of the entire content area and frequence of its host networks to transmit data packets. Data packets are parts of data transferred between computers or network bias. The GPRS system give subscribers continued data connection rather of a dial- up connection. Global Positioning System( GPS) is a navigation system for movable bias. It uses a network of satellites girding the earth. A compactible device similar bas a smartphone or a devoted navigation device has a erected- in receiver chip that picks up regular signals from the satellites. Each signal is time- enciphered so the device can calculate how far down it’s from the satellite grounded on the time the signal takes to arrive. By combining the distances from at least four satellites, the device can calculate its position to within a many bases. It can alsocross-reference this with chart data to give navigation similar as driving directions. exigency case Transportation is handled with an ambulance which is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury especially in exigency and I some case will give out- of- sanitarium medical care to the case.

mammy Misericordiae sanitarium, Afikpo is a voluntary agency erected and opened by unqualified bishop of Abakaliki diocese, Late Bishop Thomas Macgettrick in1946 with 24beds which has evolved over the times to 300beds. It’s now managed by the unqualified Diocese of Abakaliki under the owner, His| Lordship mostrev.Dr. Michael Nnachi Okoro, heading the sanitarium board which supervises and coordinates the conditioning of the sanitarium. The sanitarium stands on18.5 acres of undulating land leased to her since 1946 by the people of Evuma and Ugwuegu in Afikpo North Local Government Area Ebonyi State. It’s positioned down from the centre of Afikpo city, but with easy accessible road network. The sanitarium has a large theatre and utmost of the rearmost medical accoutrements demanded to serve you better. utmost of these accoutrements are infrequently seen in private hospitals around and indeed the public bones . It also has ambulances and other motorcars to grease the work in the sanitarium.

Statement Of The Problem

The number of road accidents victims in every busy megacity like Afikpo( with the presence of a advanced institution) can be inconceivable. Immediate medical attention to critically ill cases and accident victims followed by transportation to a well equipped original installation within the golden hour can save numerous lives. Ambulances are specifically designed to carry exigency medicines and instruments. The inner area of an ambulance is fabricated in such a way that it houses exigency drug, sterilizer, stretcher and so forth. The labor force inside the ambulances are especially trained to be exigency technicians. There live a need to compound the skill of similar paramedics with the Central Monitoring Station( CNS). The CNS helps in relating the nearest and applicable sanitarium and coordinating with the medical labor force of the sanitarium.

Ideal Of The Study

The purpose of this design work is to design and apply a system that feed the specific demand of acquiring physiological data, reconciled- in data, patient shot, and voice signals and transmitting them using a cellular network to a Central Monitoring Station that helps in relating the nearest and applicable sanitarium and coordinating with the medical labor force of that sanitarium. Placing the system in an equipped ambulance that can take vital signs, assess oxygen achromatism, examiner blood pressure etc. that will reduce the threat of death involved in exigency Case transportation. The end of this work is to design a data transfer and navigation system into a telemonitoring system for the purpose of easing information passage between the drivers of the telemonitoring system and ambulance motorists in Mater Misericordiae Hospital for the exigency transportation of cases.

Compass Of The Study

The extent to be covered in this design work is limited to the confines of he exigency unit of Mater Misericordiae Hospital Afikpo, which is well equipped with ultramodern day ambulances and outfit, but with further inquiries in this design content, it can be used in all hospitals with exigency unit and ambulances to reduce the rate of deaths in exigency situations.

Significance of the Study

perpetration of a GPS and GPRS grounded telemonitoring system for emergence case transportation will be of immense benefit to the sanitarium. The system will help the sanitarium achieve the following

1. Ameliorate the communication between the staff of the ambulance and the central monitoring station records

2. The croaker will understand the physical and physiological condition of the case more so that right decision regarding administration of medicines and transport destination can be meetly taken

3. executive conditions including the position of the vehicle, case’s attendance details can fluently be recaptured.

Limitations

Due to the cost of material for enforcing the tackle aspect of this design, the experimenter was limited by fiscal and time constraints. So the system developed was a simulation of the GPS and GPRS grounded telemonitoring system for exigency cases.